>> tonight, one for the record books, alex rodriguez, baseball's highest paid player leads the majors in days suspended without he doping scandal. don daaler in the hall of shame. bob orr an intercepted message from al qaeda that led to the shutdown of u.s. embassies. notorious wildfire. know carter evans tells us his widow is fighting a battle over her own. >> i said to them "my husband was a full time employee. he went to work full time for you." bruins and the power of a picture. >> that looks pretty rundown. tear it down in

order to build it up. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> dubois: the suspensions are about to begin for baseball players caught up in the doping scandal. the suspense is over. the suspensions are about to begin for baseball players caught up in the doping scandal. the commissioner's office winounced today that 12 players are being suspended without pay for 50 games, including all-stars nelson cruz of the texas rangers and johnny peralta of the detroit tigers. but the harshest penalty is going to alex rodriguez of the d w york yankees, baseball's highest-paid player is being suspended without pay for a record 211 games. the game has not seen punishment of this scope since the black sox scandal nearly a century nigh don dahler is in chicago where rodriguez and the yankees are playing the white sox tonight. don? >> reporter: mellow, maurice, alex rodriguez has missed most of this season trying to rehab an injury. tonight, weather permitting, he will bat fourth and play third base. but his return to major league baseball may be for a limited

time only. >> the last seven months have ben a nightmare. it's been -- you know, probably the worst time of my life for sure. ac reporter: alex rodriguez now stands alone among the 13 players accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. but what we've always fought for is for the process and i think we have that. and at some point we'll sit in front of an arbiter and give it our... give our case. >> reporter: baseball commissioner bud selig explained why rodriguez's punishment was more severe than other players. the suspension would cost at least $34 million. if the yankee third baseman

serves the full suspension he would return a 40-year-old man with $60 million left on his guaranteed contract. a-rod hinted it's the size of that contract that has made him a target. >> there's more than one party that benefits from me not ever stepping back on the field and k at's not my teammate and it's not the yankee fans. >> he signed out of high school. >> reporter: cbs sports writer danny knobler covered the story. a-rod said he was being singled out. is he? >> well, yes, he is. now, the question isn't whether he's been singled out. the question is, is he being unfairly singled out? because he's being asked to serve a suspension far longer than anyone else not only in this case but anyone else in any drug case in baseball history. >> reporter: rodriguez's suspension starts on thursday. he is allowed to play during his appeal. the process could take months and, if it fails, it could push a-rod's return to baseball into the 2015 season.

what happens now is that both the league and rodriguez present their case to an arbitrator who will then rule. maurice, it's worth noting that the yankees are playing the white sox tonight and as you said in the lead-in, the 1919 white sox threw the world series for money and ei maurice, it's worth noting the yankees are playing the white sox tonight and as you said in the lead-in, the 1919 red sox threw the world series for money and eight of their players were daned for life. the. >> dubois: what about the other 12 suspended players, what's their status tonight? ingreporter: the fact they took the suspensions means they're able to start serving the suspensions right now and for those players whose teams will make the post-season, they will be eligible to >> dubois: don dahler in chicago thank you very much. the state department today reopened a number of diplomatic posts, including the embassies in baghdad and kabul, but 19 others including those in egypt, libya and yemen will remain closed at least through saturday because of a terror threat. we know more tonight about the source of that threat. homeland security correspondent bob orr is in washington.

bob? >> reporter: maurice, that threat surfaced in the past week when intelligence analysts intercepted electronic communications between top al qaeda leaders discussing a plot against an unspecified target. sources say the head of al qaeda ayman al-zawahiri, was pressing the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to step up american targets. they referenced something big, noting an attack could happen as early as yesterday. nasir al-wuhayshi, once the personal secretary to osama bin laden, runs the yemen based branch of al qaeda that has proven to be the most aggressive in plotting against the u.s. bound airplanes with bombs hidden inside underwear and computer printers.

al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has been battered by drone strikes. deputy commander saed al-shihri was killed earlier this year. but counterterrorism officials warn al qaeda in the arabian peninsula remains dangerous and capable of inflicting serious damage. while u.s. officials were stunned that veteran al qaeda leaders broke operational security by openly discussing possible plots, the intelligence remains incomplete. analysts who worked throughout we weekend still can't say where, when, or how an attack may be carried out. so the u.s. has been forced into a blanket defense. across north africa and the middle east 19 u.s. diplomatic missions will remain closed through saturday. and while there is no indication that terrorists are targeting the u.s. mainland, security is being tightened around new york city landmarks and in some of the nation's airports. now, while nothing obviously happened on august 4, officials say the threat has not been neutralized. as far as we know, maurice, no terror operatives have been captured and there's no intelligence saying al qaeda is backing off.

>> dubois: bob, thank you. the u.s. army psychiatrist charged in the fort hood massacre is known to have traded e-mails with a former al qaeda leader. tomorrow, major nidal hasan goes on trial in military court for 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in the 2009 attack. hasan is acting as his own lawyer, which means he can question witnesses, including the victims. anna werner spoke with one of them. >> reporter: the shooting left staff sergeant alonzo lunceford blind in his left eye and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. now he faces what could be his biggest challenge of all: a possible cross-examination by the man charged with shooting him seven times, major malik nidal hasan. >> no what type of smirk or what type of smart comment that he comes out with, i stay on point, on topic, straight to the point. >> reporter: how hard is that going to be? >> it's very hard. it's going to be very difficult. >> reporter: because? >> because inside me i want him

to physically feel what it feels like to have his life in my hands. >> reporter: sergeant lunsford faced major hasan in one previous hearing. >> he had the same look on his face that day that he had on his face the day he shot us-- cold, malice person. so i locked eyes with him to show him that i fear no man. >> reporter: do you fear him? >> no. the question should be asked, does he fear he? >> reporter: do you think he does? >> i do. he should. >> reporter: what is justice to you in this case? >> in a perfect world: an eye for an eye. let him be judged by islamic law with death by stoning. and if that's the case then let each one of us have a chance to give it the old american pitch. that's what we need to make sure

that justice is served. >> reporter: that would be pretty harsh justice. >> just as harsh as killing a person in cold blood. >> reporter: and the prosecution plans to call some 300 witnesses in this case. maurice, if major hasan is convicted he could get the death penalty. >> dubois: anna, thank you. in los angeles there's a call for more barriers to protect people strolling on the venice beach boardwalk. on saturday, a car tore through a crowd there, running down more than a dozen people. one of them was killed. tonight the driver is under arrest and could face murder charges. here's john blackstone. >> reporter: a summer evening suddenly turned into a scene of chaos at venice beach. >> he just revved his car and just accelerated right here. >> reporter: sean daly was at the front of his store. >> i thought it was a bomb, to be honest. >> reporter: thought it was a bomb? >> yeah, because of a big boom and i was just right standing at the front and i heard this big

explosion but it was the a.t.m. that got hit first and that's what made everyone jump. everyone was ducking like this, it was terrible. >> reporter: you can see the dodge sedan in the top left-hand corner of this video recorded by a surveillance camera. minutes earlier another camera captured the driver, 38-year-old nathan campbell, out of the car seeming to check the route he was about to follow. los angeles mayor eric garcetti. >> this tragedy, obviously this is somebody they said he was smiling as he accelerated. if he doesn't have some sort of mental issue i would be surprised. >> reporter: an italian tourist was killed. she was on her honeymoon. in a statement, her family said she was robbed of her life while living her dream visit to california with her husband. nathan campbell is being held on $1 million bail. he appears to be a drifter with previous offenses in colorado for minor offenses there, but here now he's facing murder charges.

>> dubois: john blackstone in los angeles, thank you. the new president of iran who was sworn in yesterday filled out his cabinet today. it contains a number of reformers who were educated in the west. so could this lead to a thaw in iran's icy relations with the united states? elizabeth palmer is in tehran. >> reporter: after his election victory, iran's new president, that's him on the right, received a blessing from the country's supreme religious leader, who is also a powerful politician. now everyone is wondering which of these two men-- the moderate or the hard-liner-- will actually be running the country. hassan rouhani emerged as the surprise favorite in the presidential race after his campaign caught fire, especially among the young. he's a cleric who studied law in britain and has decades of diplomatic and political experience. in his inaugural speech, rouhani said his government would improve relations between iran, the region, and the world by

building trust through transparency. to international diplomats listening, that was a welcome change of tone, signaling future cooperation. but to the many hard-line members of iran's regime, it sounded like a threat. political analyst professor saddiq zabakalam says he will have to fight them first. >> reporter: he does, however, have the backing of millions of voters who want them to fix than's economy-- battered and sinking under the pressure of international sanctions. to get those international sanctions lifted, president rouhani is going to have to come

om with some kind of a deal in nuclear negotiations with the west due to resume this fall. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tehran. >> dubois: 19 men died fighting a wildfire in arizona. now some of their families are fighting for survivor benefits. new video may help explain what happened after the crash of arab asiana flight 214. and the hamburger that spares the cow when the "cbs evening news" continues. if you're living with moderate to severe crohn's disease, there are times it feels like your life revolves around your symptoms. if you're tired of going around in circles, get headed in a new direction, and ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. because with humira, remission is possible.

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supporting my children, be figuring out what our new normal is. five more days and you start kindergarten! >> reporter: she's within denied the lifetime benefits she was counting on the raise her four children-- the youngest is 18 months old. >> did you expect this would be this much of an issue? >> no. as shocked as i was that my husband went to work and never came home, i'm equally shocked at how the city has treated our family since then. >> reporter: all 19 hot shot families will receive workers' compensation and a one-time federal payment of $238,000. but the city insists ashcraft but the city and 12 others were seasonal employees and therefore not entitled to the lifetime salaries and health benefits worth millions that were given to the six full-time hot shots. >> i said to them "my husband was a full time employee, he went to work full time for you." and what their response to me

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toddlers. sot what parents t for their money. tonight at on kpix 5 news >> dubois: the legendary hurnalist h.l. mencken wrote his row house in baltimore was as much a part of him as his gands and such feelings for one

home were more endureing there than in any other big city in america, giving baltimore it's spears you charm. jeff pegues has a story of a woman out to restore that charm to her corner of the city. >> reporter: there are 16,000 abandoned row houses in baltimore. they often become dens for drug use or worse. >> i don't know what's down there. >> reporter: we met carol ott on the east side of town. >> it's crazy. you're standing in basically what amounted to at one time a vibrant, healthy, active community. now it's just a wasteland. >> reporter: what does this say about a city when you have this number of vacant homes? >> it says that nobody cares, you're not worthy of our attention, our time, and our money. >> reporter: she got tired of waiting for somebody to do something. wow, it looks pretty run down. >> yeah. it is. >> reporter: so five years ago she decided to publicly shame the owners by posting their names and photos of their

buildings on a web site: baltimore slumlord watch. have you had any contact with these landlords you're trying to expose and what are they saying to you? >> they offer excuses as to why they can't fix up their properties: they don't have the money, the tenants will just destroy it anyway. you know, if you don't have the money to fix it up, don't buy it. how about that? >> reporter: do you blame anyone for this? >> it's everybody's fault. we all let this happen. generations of people have allowed this to happen and generations allow it to continue to happen. >> reporter: she's been criticized for showcasing the worst of this city. >> i think in order to build something up sometimes you need to tear it down a little. >> reporter: and that's what's starting to happen. some of the owners she's embarrassed are cleaning up and securing the vacant housing. >> there's a lot of frustrations and there's a lot of sadness and anger. but coming to these neighborhoods you have to see there's a lot of joy. people are born here, they die

here, there's all the normal everyday human stuff that goes on right where we are just like in any other neighborhood across america. >> reporter: as carol ott sees it, this is a mission to restore a city still filled with pride with a little tough love. jeff pegues, cbs news, baltimore. >> dubois: and that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for scott pelley i'm maurice dubois >> closed captioning sponsored by citracal. >> a calcium chew this decadent and sugar free? new citracal sugar free chews, giving you calcium plus d in a tasty little package. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

the reprieve may not last. good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. i'm allen martin. the bay area dodged a commur nightmare when the bart stre was called off at the 11th . but that doesn't mean both s are any closer to an agreem k-p-i-x 5's ryan takeo is in lafayette with a look at whe y employee safety is both sides are no closer to an agreement for the b.a.r.t strike. kpix 5's ryan takeo has more. >> reporter: allen, unions have been bringing up stacy a lot. b.a.r.t, of course, says it is a distraction. today we compared numbers between b.a.r.t stacy numbers and other transit agencies from across the country. >> b.a.r.t passengers are glad to have a ride, but still taking sides. >> i think safety should be

part of the know -- negotiations. >> union negotiators showed their frustration. >> they are disregarding safety issues completely. now, what they are doing is yen rating more hostility against the workers who work on the front lines. >> the unions want bullet proof glass. they want more than one station agent to open and close stations. and they want better lighting in tunnels. the unions stat shows the number of workers is up 400% since last year. the b.a.r.t system reported 36 attacks in 2012. fewer than other transit agencies with similar ridership. atlanta reported 42 attacks. seattle, 107. b.a.r.t says growing crime